DOES ANY ONE KNOW HOW I CAN GET OF THE COOKER..LIST PLEASE



----- Original Message -----
From: "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: Swap activation problem


>
> Thanks Guillaume,
>
> OK, adapting for the presence of the "holes" was the only thing I changed
> recently in the partioning, previous changes were for "OldWorld" machines
> where the bootstrap is not appropriate.  The beta has none of these, so
> the issue seems independant of them.
>
> Can you list the partition table?
>
> If you have the latest from the mirror, partition_table.pm should have
> some code like this:
>
>         $hd->{primary}{normal} = [sort { $a->{start} <=> $b->{start} }
> @{$hd->{primary}{normal}} ];
>
>
>         foreach (@{$hd->{primary}{normal}}) {
>             if ($_->{start} > $start) {
>                 log::l("PPC: found a hole on $hd->{prefix} before
> $_->{start}, skipping device...");
>
>                 $i++;
>             }
>             $_->{device} = $hd->{prefix} . $i++;
>             $start = $_->{start} + $_->{size};
>         }
>     } else {
>
> But it sounds unrelated to your problem.  When you made the subsequent
> attempt, did you clear the partitions?  Perhaps the written partition
> table is not "taking" and a reboot is required after writing the partition
> table.  The code is supposed to account for this and tell you to reboot.
>
> Thx,
> Stew Benedict
>
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>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>
> > Ainsi parlait Stew Benedict :
> > > Holes in partition table?
> > No
> > >  That problem is still present on the beta.
> > > Your network install is the latest mirror stuff?
> > Yes, unless the mirror ised (proxad.net) is out of synch.
> >
> > >  Does hda11 correspond to
> > > the swap partition?
> > Yes.
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > GPG key http://bohm.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
> >
>
>


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